Safety-pocket.



No. 851,259. PATENTED APR. 23, 1907.

E. SHAW.

, SAFETY POCKET. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 13. 1907.

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EDGAR SHAW, OF SWAMPSCOTT, MASSACHUSETTS.

SAFETY-POCKET. i

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23, 1907.

Application filed February 13, 1907. Serial No. 357,168.

To a ZUh/OIII/ 1113 may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR SHAW, of Swampscott, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety- Poc-kets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a garment pocket capable of flexible attachment to the garment, so that the pocket can be reversed, the operation of reversing the pocket obstructing its mouth so that an article, such as a watch, placed therein before the reversal, cannot be removed until the pocket is turned back to its original position.

The invention consists in the improvement which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,-Figure 1 represents a side elevation showing my improved pocket in its normal position. Fig. 2 represents a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a side view showing the pocket reversed to guard its mouth. Fig. 4 represents a section on line 44 of Fig. 3.

The same lettersof reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

My improved pocket comprises a back piece' 18 and a front piece 19, the said pieces being of any suitable material, preferably flexible, and forming a pocket which is open at its upper end or mouth and closed at other portions. 20 represents a flexible tab formed on or aflixed to the upper edge of the back piece 18. 21 represents a flexible tab attached to the bottom portion of the pocket, the tabs 20 and 21 projecting in opposite directions. 23 represents a portion of a garment such as avest. The tabs 20 and 21 are attached at 22 22 to the garment 23, and they constitute the sole means of connection between the pocket and the garment. The flexibility of the tabs is such that the pocket can be turned from the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 to that shown in Figs. 3 and 4, to reverse the relative positions of its side pieces, the back side piece 18 becoming the front of the pocket. This 0 eration twists the tabs 20 and 21, and causes t e tab 20 to extend across the mouth of the pocket, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, so that a watch inserted in the pocket cannot be removed until the pocket is turned back to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the diameter of the watch being greater-than the space between either end of the pocket mouth and the tab 20. It will be seen, therefore, that before the watch can be removed, the pocket mustbe given a half turn, an operation which,if attempted by a pick-pocket,

would be sure to attract the wearers attention. One of the side pieces of the pocket, and preferably the inner side piece, may be provided with a stiffening plate or member 24, which may be of any suitable stiif material, such as sheet metal, hard rubber, celluloid, etc. The object of the stiffening member is to cause pressure against the operators body when the pocket is being turned. When, however, the pocket is used to contain a watch, the reinforcing member will not be essential, because the watch will create the desired. pressure against the operators body when the pocket is being turned.

It will be understood that the abovedescribed pocket may be placed within the ordinary pocket of a vest or other garment, or that it may be worn 011 the outer side of the garment, as shown in the drawings.

I claim:

1. A pocket having a back piece, a front piece, an open mouth, a flexible tab projecting upwardly from the upper edge of the back piece, and adapted for attachment to a garment, the pocket being reversible to convert the back'piece into a front piece, and cause the tab to obstruct the mouth.

2. A pocket having an open mouth, a flexible tab projecting from the upper edge of the back piece of the pocket, and a flexible tab projecting downwardly from the lower end of the pocket, said tabs being adapted to flexibly connect the pocket with a garment, the pocket being reversible to cause the upper tab to obstruct its mouth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

EDGAR SHAW.

Witnesses C. F. BROWN, E. BATOHELDER. 

